Hurray for the Riff Raff and Vagabon are both on the lineup for the Pitchfork Music Festival taking place in Union Park in Chicago this weekend. The festival is being livestreamed on pitchfork.com, where you can catch performances as well as conversations between Pitchfork editors and artists all weekend.

Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, currently on a full-band tour of the US, follow their concert at The Burl in Lexington, Kentucky, tonight, with a set on Pitchfork’s Blue Stage on Sunday evening. Shortly before their set, Segarra joins Pitchfork's Elia Einhorn on the Interview Stage. Hurray for the Riff Raff's acclaimed 2022 Nonesuch debut, LIFE ON EARTH, made year's best lists from NPR, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Uncut, Brooklyn Vegan, and others.

Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, brings music from her upcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, due September 15, and more to the festival’s Blue Stage on Saturday afternoon. The new album, co-produced by Tamko and Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Clairo), finds Tamko reinventing herself once again and features the most playful and adventurous music of her career. Its latest single, “Do Your Worst,” was released yesterday, along with a video that you can watch here.

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Sam Amidon performs outdoors at the Antenna Cloud Farm in Gill, Massachusetts, on Sunday. Amidon recently performed songs from his 2020 self-titled album to his 2013 Nonesuch debut, Bright Sunny South, and more, live at The Blasket Centre – Ionad an Bhlascaoid in West Kerry, Ireland, as part of Anam: Songs for Hearts and Minds, a multi-artist concert that streamed live via Other Voices; you can watch his performance of "Spanish Merchant's Daughter" here.

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Classical singer Julia Bullock joins the Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra, conducted by her husband, Christian Reif, in performing Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village, Wyoming, tonight and Saturday. Also on the program are Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33. Bullock won the Opus Klassik award in Germany last month as the Breakout Artist of the Year for her 2022 debut solo album, Walking in the Dark—on which she performs both with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Reif, and accompanied only by Reif on piano—and was nominated for the Edison Classical Award in the Netherlands in the Solo Vocalist category earlier this month.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk joins the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart for two performances at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina, this weekend: Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83, in Parker Concert Hall tonight, and Beethoven’s Piano Concert No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, in Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium tonight. Denk was on the Speaking Soundly podcast this week to talk with host and MET Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss about his acclaimed memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine, share lessons he learned from numerous piano teachers over the years, and more; you can hear their conversation here.

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Pianist Brad Mehldau and his Trio—drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier—conclude their European tour with a set at Belvedere di Villa Rufolo in Ravello, Italy, tonight, as part of Ravello Festival. Mehldau continues solo next week with a set at Verbier Festival in Switzerland before returning to France for a set at Jazz in Marciac.

Mehldau’s new live solo album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, was released on Nonesuch earlier this year. Mojo gives it four stars, calling it “an inspired set that reveals new ways of hearing pop classics.” The first-ever vinyl edition of his 2002 Jon Brion–produced album, Largo, was released last month. “Gorgeous and brilliant,” raved the Boston Globe. “Mehldau has crafted a new-jazz soundscape that bursts with pop smarts.”

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her quintet—pianist Elio Villafranca, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, djembe and conga player Weedie Braimah, and drummer Savannah Harris—bring music from her new album, Mélusine, and more to JMAC in Worcester, Massachusetts, tonight, and Caramoor’s Venetian Theater in Katonah, New York, on Saturday, for Caramoor Jazz Festival. Salvant, who was named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll earlier this month, "has already far transcended her early status as her generation's most imaginative and thrilling jazz interpreter," says SPIN, naming Mélusine one of The Best Albums of 2023 (So Far). She spoke with Worcester Magazine ahead of tonight's show; you can read what she had to say here.

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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway bring music from their new album, City of Gold, out today on Nonesuch Records, to Cascade Theatre in Redding, California, tonight, and the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond, Oregon, on Saturday, as part of FairWell Festival. "With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle continues her ascent," writes PopMatters, declaring it "one of the year’s best albums." American Songwriter, in its four-star review, calls the album an “astute blend of bluegrass and Americana ... this ‘City of Gold’ shines bright indeed.” Along with today's album release, the band also shared a lyric video for the track "Yosemite," featuring Dave Matthews, which you can watch here.